A long-vacant, dilapidated factory in the Menomonee Valley that has been the source of complaints from neighboring property owners for years (our 2022 story) will be transformed into a unicorn in the area: an apartment building.
Residential development in the almost exclusively industrial valley had long been frowned upon, but an accord reached in November green-lit a plan to build 45 apartments in the four-story, 63,000-square-foot Cream City brick building at 15th Street and St. Paul Avenue.
Developer Kendall Breunig has a history in the area; he transformed the Pritzlaff Building several blocks east of the eyesore.
“The valley should remain mostly industrial,” says Andy Hunt, director of Marquette’s Center for Real Estate, “but St. Paul Avenue is probably the best spot for an outlier project like this.”
